<i>Cast Away</i> and <i>Survivor</i>: The Surviving Castaway and the Rebirth of Empire

Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2006.00235.x

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“…In the castaway narrative, the originary moment takes shape in something similar to what Mary Louis Pratt refers to as "the-monarch-of-all-I-survey" in nonfiction travel texts, and occurs at the point where the survivor ascends to a high point on the island to visualize and claim the territory below. 5 Cultivating the island and ordering its space through enclosures like gardens, tree-houses, pens, and huts soon follows. 6 Rooting the castaway narrative in England's enclosure movement, Robert Marzec explains, "Before England began to colonize open, wild, and uncultivated land and subjects abroad, it created an apparatus for colonizing its open land and subjects at home-an apparatus that could readily be transplanted to distant territories".…”

Section: The Social Contract Tradition Castaway Narrative and Colonimentioning

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The End of New Beginnings: Nature and the American Dream in The Sopranos , Weeds, and Lost

Gabrielson¹

2009

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Section: The Social Contract Tradition Castaway Narrative and Colonimentioning

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The End of New Beginnings: Nature and the American Dream in The Sopranos , Weeds, and Lost

Gabrielson¹

2009

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“…When players cast their secret votes at tribal council, they have the opportunity to speak directly to the camera and often disclose their reasons for the vote. Thus, students found, for example, that targets for votes at tribal council are often described in negative terms before their elimination (Weaver‐Hightower :307–308).…”

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Teaching Prisoners' Dilemma Strategies inSurvivor: Reality Television in the IR Classroom

Salter

2012

Int Stud Perspect

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The reality television program Survivor is used as a teaching tool for presenting the prisoners' dilemma. Structural similarities between the format of reality television and game theory, rule-bound competitions with clear payoff, enable students to critically examine the strategies that contestants use, providing a clear pedagogical utility.This project bridges the traditional subject matter of game theory with new trends in pedagogy that focus on the engagement with popular culture (Dreyer 2011). One of the challenges in applying game theory to classroom simulations is that it "relies on player to follow in-game incentives or it breaks down" (Ehrhardt 2008:67). This project works around this challenge by using the reality television show Survivor as a televisual text that students evaluate, since the show's producers to enforce the rules. Prisoners' Dilemma is one of the most frequently taught heuristics in introductions to international relations (IR) (Ehrhardt 2008). By analyzing patterns of cooperation and defection in the reality television show Survivor, students engage in mapping the evolution of strategy within a clearly defined, rule-bound environment with transparent payoffs and consequently discover that the rules of the game and the perception of social ability play a much larger role in alliance-making decisions than physical or strategic ability.Survivor is a reality television show in which 16 contestants participate in physical and social challenges, one (or more) being voted off the island each week. Initially divided into two tribes, and subsequently as individuals, Survivor presents an excellent source for explaining and analyzing strategic alliance and voting behavior. This project was inspired in part by Der Derian's experience teaching the Prisoners' Dilemma game to actual prisoners at Gardner State Prison: The students concluded that "traditional codes of silence, pre-scripted stories, and other intersubjective rituals of honor-all specific to their prison society-defied generalization into timeless, reductionist, instrumentalist (that is, rationalist) principles. In other words, situated, constructed identities, rather than permanent unitary

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“…or the ABC TV series Lost (Jeffrey Lieber et al, 2004Lieber et al, -2010see Fallon 2011;Kinane 2016;Marschall 2009;Mayer 2011;Weaver-Hightower 2006). The presence of the shipwrecked sailor in other fields of contemporary popular culture apart from feature film and TV series, such as gaming, pop music or social media, has, however, not been investigated thoroughly so far, although it is here that productive encounters with Crusoe take place, too.…”

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"Only Robinson Crusoe Had Everything Done by Black Friday:" Robinson Crusoe Memes on Social Media

Knebel Doeberitz

2024

Anglistik

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Cast Away and Survivor: The Surviving Castaway and the Rebirth of Empire

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

The End of New Beginnings: Nature and the American Dream in The Sopranos , Weeds, and Lost

The End of New Beginnings: Nature and the American Dream in The Sopranos , Weeds, and Lost

Teaching Prisoners' Dilemma Strategies inSurvivor: Reality Television in the IR Classroom

"Only Robinson Crusoe Had Everything Done by Black Friday:" Robinson Crusoe Memes on Social Media

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